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There is choice, and the people called exceptional might become more of the population if we place before ourselves the choice. In any event, it is these exceptional people, like Maslow’s self-actualizing people in their peak experiences, with whom I want to associate and especially collaborate. I choose a wider view.

The wider view is not necessarily optimistic, but it does tend more to that end of the scale. It is I hope more inclusive of the whole picture.

:- Doug.

Widened, not wizened.

:- Doug.

If you have become indifferent to the things that happen in the world, it may be that they are no longer things you can use. You have a larger project if you look: the whole of humanity: it can use the combination of things that happen and your perspective, widened.

:- Doug.

What essentials does the long view provide us, valuable scents we can waft to the generations for their quest to improve?

:- Doug.

France and America—the two elder cousins of the democracy family.

:- Doug.

Read the generations
with a question

:- Doug.

Long age does not calcify an elder person, but presence long enough to see the next set of waves wash away sand castles: these waves surprise. Look to the sea, the endless waves, and you will not be dismayed, will feel no need to fight.

:- Doug.

All conversation is holy ground.

:- Doug.

Just ask. Most will have no interest. One in a hundred will have an interest. Find him and her.

:- Doug.

These things have no defined answers, nothing I can lay out for people. This is work we need to develop together.

:- Doug.

Humans will discover things their neighbors do that irritate. This stems from imaginings of supposed to, rights to, expectations narrow. All point to changes we need in ourselves. We can get better at this.

:- Doug.

In Meeting, we are together waiting for intimations to appear.

:- Doug.

Let us examine and meet this species, the 300 year grandchild elders, to learn of them.

:- Doug.

Will the grandchildren see the world as we do? No. Do we even want them to? No. They will see through human filters, like attitudes, emotions, and stances. These we might help them color.

:- Doug.

Will you surpass yourself?

:- Doug.

Good has to be invented, no created, fresh each generation, to meet each milieu. All possible good has not been invented. There is imagination for you to invoke. This now.

:- Doug.

We invite generations.

:- Doug.

What might be some issues and opportunities for generating a better humanity? What is better? Can we come up with some criteria universally accepted? What might we do to engender this?

So it is just here that the fruit must be broken open to see what is the seed of the matter.

What will the 300 year grandchildren elders be expecting, moving? Babies, grandchildren, generations. Perhaps fewer. Wiser? Better. Since they are better, what will they be expecting, moving towards? Friends. Conversational life. It will not be idyllic, a Shangri-La. What will be their challenges of the human dimension?

:- Doug.

We cannot say what God is. But we can say what we notice. And we notice things that are holy, divine, sacred, uplifting.

:- Doug.

That of God, the Quakers say. It may be all we can say. Life has that of God. Love, too.

:- Doug.

Crack open the fruit to see what seeds await within to spring forth new life.

:- Doug.

Explore each facet’s deep lights for its possible fruits.

:- Doug.

We are creating things while others are teaching what is already known, already available to be learned.

:- Doug.